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Senior Product Specialist
Niantic SpatialGeospatial AI company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Meritech Capital Partners
Scopely
Snap Inc.
Alsop Louie Partners
Dolby Family Ventures
Javelin Venture Partners
Product
About the role
TL;DR
Deliver real-world impact by shaping 3D reconstruction data at a global scale.
- •As a Senior Product Specialist at Niantic Spatial, you will work at the intersection of 3D reconstruction research, product development, and customer engagements to deliver real-world impact, shaping how we capture, represent, and deliver photorealistic spatial data at a global scale.
- •Key Responsibilities Reconstruction Project Delivery: Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, and Go-to-Market teams to develop and deliver high-fidelity reconstruction Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for lighthouse enterprise customers.
- •Working with Customers: Be the point-person for engaging with enterprise customers, interpreting requirements, capturing necessary data, and presenting solutions and results to stakeholders.
- •Technical Core: Drive continuous improvements to Niantic Spatial’s 3D reconstruction offering, with a focus on Gaussian splatting, meshing, and hybrid neural representations.
- •Sensor & Data Evaluation: Systematically evaluate reconstruction quality across diverse capture modalities, including smartphones, 360 cameras, drones, and LiDAR.
- •Quality & Benchmarking: Define, track, and optimize quality metrics for 3D reconstruction outputs; establish rigorous benchmarks that guide internal research and product engineering priorities.
- •Landscape Expertise: Stay embedded in the fast-moving 3D reconstruction landscape, keeping up with advancements across the industry to advocate for internal product developments.
- •Requirements 5-8+ years of industry or applied research experience in 3D reconstruction involving data capture and processing for photogrammetry, NeRFs, and Gaussian Splatting outputs Experience with agentic development workflows for building tooling, pipelines, and processes to boost productivity.
- •Hands-on expertise and advanced knowledge of 3D reconstruction tooling and workflows such as NerfStudio, COLMAP, RealityScan/RealityCapture, Pix4D, Drone Deploy, Cesium iTwin, and ArcGIS Reality.
- •Hands-on expertise with 3D scanning.
- •Advanced capture methods, scan project planning, drone flight path planning, execution, and data organization and management.
- •Strong understanding of the full reconstruction stack: capture methods and devices, SfM and SLAM, dense reconstruction, and an understanding of optimizing reconstructions for real-time rendering.
- •Experience with multi-sensor data (RGB, depth, LiDAR, IMU) and the tradeoffs between capture modalities.
- •Presentation and technical writing skills to present to both deeply technical and non-technical audiences Required at least 3 days of in-office work in San Francisco.
Required skills
Presentation Skills
Nice-to-have skills
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Domain expertise
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Tech stack
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